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An Analysis of Botnet Models

Proceedings of the 2019 3rd International Conference on Compute and Data Analysis, 2019
Botnets are a form of cyber threat responsible for massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, delivery of malicious payloads like ransomware, and dissemination of spam which might be used for phishing. Botnets are closely associated with the Internet of Things (IoT), particularly IoT devices, which when compromised can become part of a ...
Polly Wainwright, Houssain Kettani
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Botnets

2014
Recent malicious attempts are intended to get financial benefits through a large pool of compromised hosts, which are called software robots or simply bots. A group of bots, referred to as a botnet, is remotely controllable by a server and can be used for sending spam emails, stealing personal information, and launching DDoS attacks. Growing popularity
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Botnets, and the cybercriminal underground

2008 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics, 2008
An underground community of cyber criminals has grown in recent years with powerful technologies capable of inflicting serious economic and infrastructural harm in the digital age. This paper serves as an introduction to the world of botnets and to the efforts of the nonprofit group ldquoThe ShadowServer Foundationrdquo to track them.
Clinton J. Mielke, Hsinchun Chen
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Detecting and destroying botnets

Network Security, 2016
Due to their limitless size and capacity, botnets are among the most powerful components of a modern cyber-criminal's arsenal of attack techniques. They are made up of compromised workstations distributed over the public Internet that leverage the untapped processing power of a multitude of endpoints, usually to accomplish a malicious agenda.
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Botnets and their detection techniques

2020 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), 2020
Botnet is considered a dangerous threat that could harm internet users as it makes the compromised host becomes under the control of the botmaster and follow its commands to perform a wide range of malicious activities such as distributed denial of service (DDOS), spamming, identity theft, click fraud, and phishing attacks.
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Botnet and P2P Botnet Detection Strategies: A Review

2018 International Conference on Communication and Signal Processing (ICCSP), 2018
Among various network attacks, botnet led attacks are considered as the most serious threats. A botnet, i.e., the network of compromised computers is able to perform large scale illegal activities such as Distributed Denial of Service attacks, click fraud, bitcoin mining etc. These attacks are considered as the major concern now-a-days.
Himanshi Dhayal, Jitender Kumar
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Mirai Botnet In Lebanon

2020 8th International Symposium on Digital Forensics and Security (ISDFS), 2020
The growth of the Internet of things (IoT) in the market of smart home and surveillance security raises the flag of new security risks, after the presence of new malware targeting IoT devices for creating a botnet. Mirai is one of the famous malware that used IoT bots to perform the most massive DDoS attack in botnet history.
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Fighting botnets with sinkholes

Network Security, 2012
In the early days of the Internet, domain theft was a problem. But these days, it's a legitimate practice, designed to make the network a safer place. Sinkholing is becoming a relatively commonplace practice in the cyber-security research community.
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An Automated Behaviour-Based Clustering of IoT Botnets

Future Internet, 2022
Ning Zhang, Tolijan Trajanovski
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On Detecting and Classifying DGA Botnets and their Families

Computers and Security, 2022
Tong Anh Tuan, Hoang Viet Long, David Tâniar   +2 more
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